Video Card advice needed.....

cr8250

New Member

Hi all, with all the great price drops with AMD and the X2, I am going to get an X2 3800+. Since I will be upgrading to a new S939 board with PCI-e, what graphics cards would you recommend that will match my current Radeon 9600 256mb? I am really not happy about getting rid of my 9600, but I gues I don't have much choice. Any suggestions? ATI or nVidia is fine.

equinoxe3d

Active Member

Many current lower-end cards will easily match or surpass a vanilla 9600. If you don't do gaming, then an X550 like this one could be a good choice. There's also a 256MB version for 3$ more if you really want it.

I'd stay away from the complete low-end (X300SE) since they usually have a 64-bit memory bus, not much an issue if you're not gaming but it's still half than your 9600 and would probably affect GUI performance if you ever upgrade to Vista.

equinoxe3d

Active Member

Well, in the ATI range, the X550 that I posted above is decently priced at $50 and pretty similar to the 9600 but a bit faster; I did a bit of research and on the same platform (A64 3200+, used only for comparison), it gave the following results in 3DMark 2003: